Mongolia.
The environs of Ulaanbaatar.
The national sports festival Naadam ("three games of men").
The steppe.
Arats, nomadic cattle breeders, come to the festival.
Riders of different ages.
Pasture.
A shepherd-rider drives a herd of horses.
A yurt, a Mongolian family.
They cook traditional Mongolian flatbreads.
The head of the family talks about himself, his children, and his hard work (synchronously).
Arats break in young horses (many shots).
Old people and children watch.
A herd of horses (many shots).
Mongolian horses at a watering hole.
Nomads braid the hair of horses and children.
Mongolian children on horseback (many shots).
Children's horseback competitions.
Old people sit on the ground, chatting.
A valley near the finish line.
The qualifying review before the Naadam festival.
The Mongols sit, waiting.
Horse faces (many shots).
Start.
Children galloping on horses in a single file.
Child riders in elegant folk costumes (many shots).
Yurt.
An old man surrounded by children.
Large winners' medals.
An old herder on the Party's mistake and the people's declining interest in cattle breeding (synchronously).
Children playing with a lamb next to the yurt.
A corral, goats being released to pasture.
A herd of camels.
Camels eating grass.
Cows at a watering hole, crossing a river.
A Mongol cutting up a meat carcass.
Preparing for the First Kumiss Festival.
Catching small foals (many shots).
Tying up the foals.
Mongolian women boiling meat in a vat.
An old woman feeding her little grandson.
Milking mares.
A Mongol drinking mare's milk.
Women and men churning milk.
The First Kumiss Festival.
Mongols in elegant costumes drinking kumiss.
A Mongolian plays a folk musical instrument and sings.
An elderly woman performs a spell ritual.
Mongolian priests (llamas) in a yurt.
A lama talks about the meaning of prayer (synchronously).
Ulaanbaatar, the Gandan monastery complex.
Buddhist monks praying.
A lama talks about faith in peace and human well-being (synchronously).
A common festive meal in the steppe.
A musician plays the morin khuur (a folk string instrument).
Mongols ride across the steppe.
A horse herder talks about the weather and preparing horses for the races (synchronously).
Mongolian boys The Mongolian mountains of Gurvan-Saikhan (Three Beauties), many plans.
A toddler is capricious in a yurt, adults are working.
Boys carry horse harness and saddles.
Ulaanbaatar, a stadium.
A line of horses in folk costumes, with ancient flags.
Sports competitions are underway in three national sports.
Wrestling.
Archery.
Children and teenagers racing.
Photos of the winning boys: awards ceremony.
After the Naadam festival, everyday sketches.
1989-1991
Mongolia
steppe, horses, riders